US 12,234,127 B2
Elevator system
Claus-Dietmar Luther, Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim (DE); and Stefan Weber, Niederwil (CH)
Assigned to INVENTIO AG, Hergiswil (CH)
Appl. No. 16/623,642
Filed by Inventio AG, Hergiswil (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 1, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/064397
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 17, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/001889, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17177958 (EP), filed on Jun. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0216290 A1, Jul. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. B66B 9/16 (2006.01); B66B 11/00 (2006.01); B66B 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 9/16 (2013.01) [B66B 11/0005 (2013.01); B66B 19/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An elevator system for a construction site, the elevator system comprising:
a first elevator shaft and a second elevator shaft;
a jump lift arranged in the first elevator shaft and movable up to a top stop below a top work level of the construction site;
a construction site elevator system arranged in the second elevator shaft for temporarily bridging at least part of a distance between the top stop of the jump lift and the top work level;
wherein the construction site elevator system includes a frame structure and an elevator incorporated in the frame structure, the elevator having an elevator car vertically movable within the frame structure, the frame structure including a plurality of rotatably mounted rollers and/or wheels positioned to contact and slide along at least one wall of the second elevator shaft as the construction site elevator system is lowered and raised; and
wherein the construction site elevator system is insertable into the second elevator shaft and is selectively mountable at different positions on the second elevator shaft including at the top stop.